CHAPTER XXV
The two women found by Mrs. Huang were neat, and it only took half a day to clean the inside and out, and then followed Ye Zhiqing to buy covered oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice noodles and other things, and carried them all back. [Full text reading. Hu Niu, the little housekeeper, ran before and after to count things, for fear that these two women would have unclean hands and feet and take advantage.
When the house was cleaned up and moved in, it was already two days later, Huang Pozi sent Hu Niu's deed of sale, and Ye Zhiqing gave five taels of silver to sell her body, but Huang Pozi didn't even want to take a head, but said: "You follow your girl, and live a good life in the future." She can see that Ye Zhiqing is a kind-hearted person, and she has no dislike for Hu Niu, this child finally has a good life.
Hu Niu stuffed all the five taels of silver to Mrs. Huang: "My mother gave this silver to my father, and he raised me, although he was not a relative, but he was really good to me." "My stepmother starved her many times, and my stepfather secretly stuffed her with food.
"You're a sentient person." Mrs. Huang took back the five taels of silver and quietly stuffed it to Cui Shan, only saying that it meant that Hu Niu meant. Cui Shan repeatedly excused himself, and asked about the owner of the tiger girl, who heard that she was a kind-hearted young girl, and she was willing to give her enough food and clothes to wear, and her eyes were red: "I promised her mother to take good care of her, and I have made the child suffer all these years." ”
Ye Zhiqing had a place to stay, so she lived a few happy days, ate, slept and slept every day, and made up for the lack of sleep when she was a maid in the Yu family, so she took the tiger girl to the street to look around, ready to make a living.
There is a Li Zheng family living next door to her house, and with the relationship of the tiger girl, Mrs. Huang deliberately reminded them that letting their master and servant have a good relationship with the Li Zheng family can save a lot of trouble.
picked a sunny day, Ye Zhiqing took the tiger girl to prepare four-color snacks and went to visit Lizheng's house in person.
Li is a purple-faced man in his forties, Li Zheng is a lady in her thirties, with a big belly like a basket, looking at the appearance of a fast child, sitting in the shade of the courtyard with a big belly and basking in the sun, her eldest daughter-in-law is wearing a red dress, full of childishness, and follows the pregnant mother-in-law.
Li Zheng Niangzi saw that it was a teenage girl who came in, with an ugly girl, saying that it was a new neighbor next door, shàng mén visited, and then saw that the other party was carrying a four-color dim sum from Yonghe Zhai, knowing that this dim sum was not cheap, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face.
"What does this mean? The girl has just moved in, and if someone bullies her, just tell Liang'er and his father. ”
Ye Zhiqing was waiting for this sentence, and immediately expressed her gratitude: "Thank you, Aunt Yang." I see that the eldest mother is about to give birth, and if there is a need, I will shout through the courtyard wall, and I will come over to help. ”
Yang Niangzi, the new daughter-in-law, has only been married for less than a month, and she doesn't understand a lot of things, seeing that Ye Zhiqing is not much older than her, she even knows how to visit her neighbors when she moves over, and she is a lot better than her own daughter-in-law in terms of human feelings, so she said: "My Yunniang is not very sensible, she married a bride for the first time, so she learned from me, unfortunately I am going to have a confinement period, maybe I will really trouble the girl when the time comes." ”
In fact, there are old neighbors all around, and her mother's family also lives in Wulipu outside the city, if there is really something to do, you can send a letter on the same day, and you really don't need Ye Zhiqing, this sentence is pure politeness.
Ye Zhiqing got in touch with the Li Zheng family, and after two or three days of shopping on the street, she also pulled two feet of Songjiang cotton cloth and sent it to Lizheng Niangzi: "I came over that day, I didn't know that Aunt Yang was about to give birth, I was stupid and didn't have a lot of needlework, but I just saw that this Songjiang cotton cloth was fine and soft, and I wanted to make underwear for the little baby, so I simply sent it over and asked the aunt to cut the scissors herself." ”
Li Zheng Niangzi smiled like a flower: "I see that you are ingenious, why don't you know how to do needlework?" ”
Ye Zhiqing suddenly looked embarrassed: "Auntie is wrong, I'm just a stupid person, my clothes are not good at making, let alone a baby." It would be a pity to cut this cotton cloth. ”
Yang Niangzi accepted the cotton cloth she sent, and muttered to Li Zheng at night: "I see that this Ye girl is not very popular at a young age, is she from a big family?" She has guessed Ye Zhiqing's origin in her heart these days, but at the foot of the Son of Heaven in the capital, there are no strange things, although Li Zheng is a small people, she has seen a lot, and said at the moment: "You don't care about other people's affairs, no matter what her background is, as long as she lives here in peace, she is polite to our family, and she can shelter one or two." ”
A single woman, living alone outside, no matter what the circumstances, always has many unavoidable things.
It's really right for Li Zheng. Ye Zhiqing has lived here for less than half a month, and she has been targeted by a local prankster. He was nearly twenty-six or seventeen years old and had not yet started a family, and he was messing around outside all day, and there was only a blind old lady at home, who lived a hungry and full meal.
Ye Zhiqing went in and out with a ring, but she was too beautiful and a new face, and soon the neighbors around saw it and discussed a few words, which reached the ears of Liu Song, which aroused his interest, and boasted to his blind old lady: "Mother, you wait, wait for your son to marry you a beautiful daughter-in-law and come back." ”
His blind old lady had long turned a blind eye to her son's affairs outside, and she couldn't care about it anyway, she just listened